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9-letter words containing a, d, g

  • grenadier — (in the British army) a member of the first regiment of household infantry (Grenadier Guards)
  • grenadine — a syrup made from pomegranate juice.
  • greybeard — Sometimes Disparaging. a man whose beard is gray; old man; sage.
  • grid bias — the potential difference applied between a grid and the cathode of a vacuum tube.
  • grid leak — a high-resistance device that permits excessive charges on the grid to leak off or escape.
  • grid road — a municipal road that follows a grid line established by the original survey of the area.
  • grindelia — any of various composite plants of the genus Grindelia, comprising the gumweeds.
  • groundage — a tax levied on ships that anchor in a port.
  • groundman — a groundsman
  • grudziadz — a city in N Poland, on the Vistula River.
  • grunewald — Mathias [mah-tee-ahs] /mɑˈti ɑs/ (Show IPA), (Mathias Neithardt-Gothardt) c1470–1528, German painter and architect.
  • guanadrel — a substance, C 20 H 40 N 6 O 8 S, used as an antihypertensive.
  • guangdong — a province in SE China. 89,344 sq. mi. (231,401 sq. km). Capital: Canton.
  • guanidine — a colorless, crystalline, strongly alkaline, water-soluble solid, CH 5 N 3 , used chiefly in the manufacture of plastics, resins, rubber accelerators, and explosives.
  • guanodine — (biochemistry, genetics) any of the three nucleotides guanosine monophosphate, guanosine diphosphate and guanosine triphosphate.
  • guard dog — a large, aggressive dog, as a German shepherd or Doberman pinscher, trained to guard persons or property and often to attack or restrain on command.
  • guard pin — (in a lever escapement) a pin on the lever, meeting the safety roller in such a way as to prevent the lever from overbanking.
  • guardafuiCape, a cape at the E extremity of Africa.
  • guardedly — cautious; careful; prudent: to be guarded in one's speech.
  • guardians — Plural form of guardian.
  • guardless — Defenceless.
  • guardpost — Alternative spelling of guard post.
  • guardrail — Also, guardrailing. a protective railing, as along a road or stairway.
  • guardroom — a room used by military guards during the period they are on duty.
  • guardship — a warship responsible for the safety of other ships in its company
  • guardsman — a person who acts as a guard.
  • guardsmen — Plural form of guardsman.
  • guidances — the act or function of guiding; leadership; direction.
  • guideways — Plural form of guideway.
  • guildhall — (in Britain) the hall built or used by a guild or corporation for its assemblies; town hall.
  • guildsman — a member of a guild.
  • gurdwaras — Plural form of gurdwara.
  • gynaecoid — Characteristic of a woman.
  • gypsyhead — a flanged drum on a winch, for winding in lines.
  • haggadist — one of the writers of the Aggadah.
  • haggardly — In a haggard manner.
  • hagridden — worried or tormented, as by a witch.
  • hagriding — Present participle of hagride.
  • handgrips — Plural form of handgrip.
  • handguard — A guard on the front of a weapon for hand and finger protection, or to allow for attachments to the weapon.
  • harangued — a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe.
  • hard drug — an addicting drug capable of producing severe physical or psychological dependence, as heroin.
  • hard sign — the Cyrillic letter Ъ, ъ as used in Russian to indicate that the preceding consonant is not palatalized: not in official use since 1918.
  • hard-edge — of, relating to, or characteristic of a style of abstract painting associated with the 1960s and marked chiefly by sharply outlined geometric or nongeometric forms.
  • hardanger — embroidery openwork having elaborate symmetrical designs created by blocks of satin stitches within which threads of the embroidery fabric are removed.
  • hardening — a material that hardens another, as an alloy added to iron to make steel.
  • hardgoods — durable goods, such as automobiles, furniture, etc.
  • hardgrass — any of several types of coarse grass
  • harigalds — the intestines of an animal
  • harmdoing — the doing of harm
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